unmercifully
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unmerciful + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unmercifully (comparative more unmercifully, superlative most unmercifully)
- In an unmerciful manner.
- 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
- These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.